Them Bird Things

Biography

Them Bird Things, formed in late 2007, is a collaboration between a Finnish singer Salla Day, two American songwriting legends Steve Blodgett & Mike Brassard, and producer Will Shade, who drafted Timo Vikkula, Esa Jussila and Ville Särmä into their ranks to capture the magic of a music that traveled across oceans of time and space. Them Bird Things deliver a potent potpourri of Americana, running the gamut from folk-rock rave-ups to lysergic jamborees to rockabilly hootenannies. Multi-instrume...

Them Bird Things, formed in late 2007, is a collaboration between a Finnish singer Salla Day, two American songwriting legends Steve Blodgett & Mike Brassard, and producer Will Shade, who drafted Timo Vikkula, Esa Jussila and Ville Särmä into their ranks to capture the magic of a music that traveled across oceans of time and space. Them Bird Things deliver a potent potpourri of Americana, running the gamut from folk-rock rave-ups to lysergic jamborees to rockabilly hootenannies.

Multi-instrumentalist Arttu Tolonen showed up in time for the band's second album and in 2012, Chuck Eddy cited the act as being the #1 Country band in the world in the January issue of Nashville Scene. He had previously named their sophomore effort, "Wildlike Wonder," as the 9th best release of 2011 in the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop poll.

In the interim, the band settled into the configuration of Salla Day, Timo Vikkula, Arttu Tolonen and Affe Forsman. Them Bird Things released their third album, "Pachyderm Nightmares," in January 2013. This album was a departure from their previous two albums in that the songwriting was self-penned.

The band added multi-instrumentalist Tapani Varis in late 2013 and Timo Vikkula left shortly thereafter. Them Bird Things woodshedded for the next year, writing and recording songs in their new home studio. In February 2015, the band released their fourth album, "The Bride Who Came to Yellow Sky," which once again contained all original material except for the opening track, "Pretty Fly." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.